Learning Guide on Marine Debris contains three online units with objectives, background, and hands-on interactive activities. Covers definitions, characteristics and sources of marine debris; its effects on wildlife, the coastal community and human health; and how to develop solutions, get involved and educate others about marine pollution prevention. Full description.

Multidisciplinary activity guide offers introduction to Chesapeake Bay, its habitats and inhabitants. Discusses threats to the Bay and suggests ways teachers and students can contribute to Bay restoration. Lessons cover: watershed and water resources; Bay habitats; food web; biodiversity and adaptations for survival; human uses of the Bay and its resources. Good line drawings. Targets K-3 learners. ... Full description.

Interdisciplinary curriculum introduces the scientific process, experimental design and data analysis. Units on plate tectonics, hydrothermal vents, ridge visualization, surveying deep sea organisms. Students become the scientists, developing proposals for at-sea investigations, teacher coordinates submission to researchers studying the East Pacific Rise. Students retrieve, organize, analyze and report ... Full description.

The Burd Run Interdisciplinary Watershed Research Laboratory at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania (SU) is a cooperative effort among 13 faculty from the Departments of Geography-Earth Science, Biology, and Teacher Education. The goal of the laboratory is to provide intensive undergraduate field training through collection and analysis of related hydrologic, geologic, biologic, and geographic ... Full description.

Tectonics is a series of geospatial investigations designed to augment existing middle school Earth science curriculum. Students use Web GIS to investigate important tectonics concepts. The investigations include scientific practices, crosscutting concepts, and core ideas from the National Research Council (2012) Framework for K-12 Science Education. Full description.

Global Systems Science (GSS) is an interdisciplinary course for high school students comprised of nine Student Books with Instructor Guides. The books may be used for a one-year integrated science course, or individual guides may be incorporated into existing high school biology, physics, chemistry, Earth science, or social studies courses. The nine Student Guides are divided into four themes: 1. ... Full description.

This site contains English and Spanish versions on the following classroom units: Five Senses, Spiders, Dinosaurs, Plants and Seeds, The Human Body, Good Health, Sun and Stars, Weather, Ocean, Matter, Sound, and Simple Machines. The resource is designed to help elementary school teachers organize their classrooms and instructional activities in order to increase achievement of Hispanic primary-grade ... Full description.

These lesson plans and activities cover science topics such as: predicting weather patterns, ecosystems of Utah, abiotic and biotic factors, characteristics of living things, the use of patterns in mathematical problems, the solar system, the moon, stars, microbes, air pressure, sound waves, etc. Full description.

The Institute for Resources, the Environment, and Sustainability (IRES) is an interdisciplinary graduate program focused on transdisciplinary Resource Management and Environmental Studies. Research topics include water resources, coastal zone management, land use (agriculture, forestry, mining) and environmental quality, Eco-Risk and forest economics and policy. The IRES program projects consist of ... Full description.

This newly-developed curriculum takes lesson plans that were developed for NOAA Voyages of Discovery and the Ocean Explorer website and presents them in a comprehensive scope and sequence through subject area categories that cut across individual expeditions. Each lesson focuses on an inquiry-based approach to teaching and learning and is correlated to the National Science Education Standards. Curriculum ... Full description.